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Guest Post — DEI Under Threat: Collaborative Strategies to #DefendResearch

Today’s guest post reflects on the recent panel discussion, “Collaborative strategies to #DefendResearch and ensure academic freedom,” by speakers and organizers of the event.

  • By Terri Teleen, Sarah McKenna, George Cooper, Sara Rouhi, Josh Sendall, Mustafa B. Ozturk
  • Dec 22, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post:  Academic Publishing Is  Not Fit for the Future – If We Don’t Act Now, The Vital Role Research Plays in Society Is at Risk

Academic publishing ia reaching a breaking point. Unless we redesign it, we risk stalling the very progress we seek – with consequences impacting research, education and public trust in academia.

  • By Mandy Hill
  • Dec 11, 2025
  • 16 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — Sustainable Practices and UN SDG Alignment at the 2025 EASE Conference in Oslo

Today’s guest bloggers describe the efforts taken in organizing a sustainable 2025 conference of the European Association for Science Editors.

  • By Lovorka Čaja, Iva Grabarić Andonovski
  • Dec 10, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — From Cloud to Carbon: Exploring the Digital Carbon Footprint of Knowledge

Today’s guest post summarizes the discussion in the recent EASE / STM / webinar, exploring the digital carbon footprint of scholarly publishing.

  • By Rachel Martin
  • Dec 1, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Science as Story, Memory as Infrastructure: A Conversation with Trevor Owens, Part 2

In today’s guest post, Wendy Queen (JHUP) continues her conversation with Trevor Owens (AIP) about how the tools and sensibilities of the humanities are helping to preserve the record of the physical sciences.

  • By Wendy Queen
  • Nov 25, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Mental Health Awareness Mondays — Balancing Work and Caregiving: Flexibility That Works for Everyone

Today, nearly one in four adults serves as a caregiver. Because of this, work-life flexibility isn’t just a nicety it’s a game-changer, for individuals and organizations alike.

  • By Kristal Gerdes
  • Nov 24, 2025
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

In Defense of Pluralism and Diversity: A Modest Manifesto for the Future of Scholarly Communication (Part 2 of 2)

Since every possible method and model of scholarly communication is imperfect, a healthy scholarly ecosystem must be pluralistic, providing space for experimentation and for a diversity of methods, models, and philosophies to coexist.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Nov 18, 2025
  • 42 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — Do Academic Libraries Have a Strategy for AI?

If libraries are civic institutions that structure society’s relationship to knowledge, and generative AI is poised to reshape discovery whether libraries act or not, will library leaders will develop strategies that preserve trust, equity, and sustainability?

  • By Mark McBride
  • Oct 30, 2025
  • 12 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Insights from the SSP Organizational Compensation and Benefits Study

Building on SSP’s spring results of the individual compensation and benefits study, Melanie Dolechek shares insights from the organizational survey — a slide of the survey data that provides useful benchmarks on policies and practices across publishing organizations.

  • By Melanie Dolechek
  • Oct 24, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Ask the Chefs: Who Owns Our Knowledge?

In honor of International OA Week, The Scholarly Kitchen Chefs ponder the theme: Who owns our knowledge?

  • By Rick Anderson, Lettie Y. Conrad, Haseeb Irfanullah, Phill Jones, Maryam Sayab, Randy Townsend
  • Oct 21, 2025
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post — From Language Barrier to AI Bias: The Non-Native Speaker’s Dilemma in Scientific Publishing

For decades, EAL researchers have faced systemic disadvantages in publishing. AI writing tools promise relief, yet, they also bring new risks into science.

  • By Claudia Taubenheim
  • Oct 20, 2025
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — Reporting from LIBER 2025: Policy Influence, Library Agency, and Researcher-First Open Access Moves

Today’s guest bloggers reflect on the the LIBER Annual Conference in Lausanne (2–4 July).

  • By Eleonora Colangelo, Martina Sollai
  • Oct 16, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Five Tips for Hosting a Sustainable Event

Event planners are faced with the delicate balance between constructing spaces for deeper connection with the impact we’re having on our planet. Here’s what I’ve learned about planning events that prioritize sustainability.

  • By Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen
  • Oct 14, 2025
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Welcoming a New Chef in the Kitchen and Saying Thanks to a Few Departing Chefs

Today we welcome Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen to The Scholarly Kitchen as a full time Chef and say goodbye to several long-term Chefs (and offer our thanks for all the wisdom they’ve shared with us).

  • By David Crotty
  • Oct 14, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

SSP’s Generations Fund Crosses the Finish Line

SSP Thanks Individual & Organizational Contributors to the Generations Fund!

  • By Society for Scholarly Publishing
  • Oct 10, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

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